Park Avenue Synagogue’s Beren Scholars Program, in partnership with UJA-Federation’s PACT program, invites high school students and their parents to a dinner and discussion on Israel with Yardena Schwartz, an award-winning journalist who was based in Israel until 2023 and is the author of “Ghosts of a Holy War.”
The evening is also being planned in close collaboration with OpenDor Media's Unpacked team. In addition to the talk with Ms. Schwartz, there will be break-out learning sessions for parents and teens on a wide variety of topics related to Israel and current events.
Now, more than ever, it is important to understand the complexities of how historical events connect to current events. Please join us for an evening for 8-12 grade students and their parents to help make these important connections
Registration, $18 per person, includes dinner and one copy of “Ghosts of a Holy War” per family.
About Yardena Schwartz
Yardena Schwartz is an award-winning journalist and Emmy-nominated producer who was based in Israel for a decade until 2023. Her reporting from four continents has appeared in dozens of publications, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Review of Books, The Economist, TIME, National Geographic, and Foreign Policy. Yardena previously worked at NBC News and MSNBC. She graduated with honors from Columbia Journalism School in 2011, received an Emmy nomination for her work at MSNBC in 2013, and the RNA award for excellence in magazine reporting in 2016. Yardena now lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with her husband and children. Ghosts of a Holy War is her first book.
